Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

This is what Xu Tian has always been worried about.

Shen Suqiu's hand holding the teacup paused for a moment, then returned to normal. She raised her eyes and looked at Xu Tian, ​​her tone calm but with a hint that surprised Xu Tian: "Yes, it's in the hospital over there.

Cousin, actually... not all Japanese are bad people."

These words rang in Xu Tian's ears like a slight thunder.

His eyes suddenly became sharp, but his face remained gentle. "Oh? Why do you say that, cousin? As far as I know, the Japanese occupied our land and killed our compatriots. What they did is really hard to describe as 'good'."

Xu Tian tried to guide Shen Suqiu to say more.

Shen Suqiu seemed to suddenly realize that she had spoken out of turn. She immediately lowered her head, sipping tea to hide her momentary panic. When she raised her head again, her face had been replaced with a slightly coquettish and playful expression: "Oh, cousin, I just said it casually.

Look at the military doctor who treated me. He was quite friendly. At least he didn’t make things difficult for me, a wounded person, right?

It's better than those shootings at the train station.

There are good and bad people everywhere in this world, so we can't lump everyone together!" She tried to steer the subject away with this seemingly innocent, student-like tone, but Xu Tian keenly caught the evasiveness and a certain protective emotion that flashed through her eyes.

Xu Tian didn't press her any further, but smiled and said, "That's true. There are all kinds of people everywhere."

But the doubts in Xu Tian's heart became even stronger.

Shen Suqiu's reaction was too unnatural. That momentary panic and subsequent deliberate concealment were definitely not the reaction a simple female student should have when talking about invaders.

She seemed to be trying to hide a specific memory or association with the Japanese.

However, what confused Xu Tian even more was that in the following days, when Shen Suqiu learned about the new atrocities committed by the Japanese army in various places, or the fall of a city from newspapers or from occasional conversations between Xu Ma and Tian Dan, the indignation she expressed seemed extremely real.

Xu Tian had observed carefully that Shen Suqiu's fists would clench subconsciously, her pale cheeks would flush with excitement, and the anger and heartache in her eyes did not seem fake at all.

It was an instinctive reaction stemming from national sentiment, and a normal emotion for an educated young man when the country was in crisis.

This contradiction made Xu Tian fall into deep thought.

He could basically rule out the possibility that Shen Suqiu was sent by Yingzo to monitor him.

Her arrival was evidenced by a letter from her uncle. Although her experience of injury was vague, the general outline was clear. Moreover, her daily words and deeds, apart from the abrupt comment about the Japanese and the subsequent cover-up, did not show any other suspicious things.

She is very filial to Xu Ma and very friendly to Tian Dan. She is just like a weak cousin who comes to live with her relatives and needs to recuperate.

If Yingzuo really wanted to plant a spy, he would never choose someone with such obvious flaws and limited mobility.

Then, the only remaining explanation is that something unknown did happen during Shen Suqiu's experience in Tianjin, especially during her injury and hospitalization.

These things caused a subtle difference in her view of the "Japanese" as a whole, making her feel that there were some "not bad" people among them.

And this matter seemed to be a secret that she was unwilling to mention, or even wanted to deliberately forget or protect.

"Not all Japanese are bad people..." Xu Tian chewed over this sentence again and again.

It was like a tiny thorn, piercing his mind.

What kind of person could make her willing to give such an evaluation after experiencing war, being injured, and leaving her hometown?

Was it the doctor who saved her life? Or... someone else?

What connection does this person have to the truth about her injury at the train station?

Could it be that my cousin was unknowingly involved in an incident more complicated than just a simple injury?

Xu Tian decided not to ask directly so as not to alert the enemy.

He turned to a more covert form of observation.

He would pay attention to the types of newspapers and books Shen Suqiu read, and occasionally chat with her casually about the customs and culture of Tianjin and campus life at Nankai University, trying to capture more fragments of information from her words.

He found that Shen Suqiu seemed to have some knowledge of the Japanese Concession in Tianjin, especially the Japanese Military Police Headquarters, and even occasionally used a few Japanese words in her conversation, with quite standard pronunciation.

When Xu Tian asked her about it, she would say that she had taken a Japanese course in college, or that she had read about it in a book, and she would gloss over the issue lightly.

At the same time, Shen Suqiu's arrival also brought subtle changes to the small world of Tongfuli.

Xu Ma now has another "patient" who needs careful care, and the busyness seems to have diluted some of her worries about the current situation.

Tian Dan now had a young woman with whom he could occasionally talk. Although both of them had secrets and their conversations were mostly limited to family matters and recuperation, it at least alleviated some of the loneliness in the attic.

Shen Suqiu also seemed to enjoy the rare warmth from her family in these troubled times. She smiled more often and her complexion seemed to be better.

However, whenever it was late at night or when she was alone and in a daze, a hint of confusion and worry would occasionally appear in her eyes.

Xu Tian saw all of this.

He was convinced that his cousin Shen Suqiu was not an enemy at all, and that she was kind and patriotic.

But she must be hiding a secret in her heart, a secret related to a specific Japanese person.

This secret shrouded her like a mist, and also gave Xu Tian an additional responsibility to explore and protect while dealing with Ying Zuo's threats and protecting Tian Dan.

At the same time, Kagesa Tadaaki was sitting in his office.

There was a drizzle outside the window, and the mist blurred the glass and also blurred his sharp eyes behind the lenses.

Hase stood in front of the table with his hands hanging down, respectfully presenting a brief summary of intelligence. A young woman had just moved into No. 173 Tongfuli. It was discovered that she was Xu Tian's cousin Shen Suqiu from Xuzhou. She claimed to be a student of Nankai University. She went south because of the war and was injured.

"Cousin?" Ying Zuo Zhen Zhao repeated the word softly, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth.

At this critical moment for Xu Tian, ​​anyone and anything close to him was worth investigating. "Hang Gu, tell me more about this... Miss Shen."

Chang Gu opened the small notebook he carried with him and reported in a steady tone: "Shen Suqiu, about twenty years old, arrived in Shanghai from Tianjin on the British passenger ship "Lady Grant".

When he arrived at the port, he was injured and looked pale, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

The people we sent to monitor Tongfu Road learned the news by asking neighbors and eavesdropping on conversations between Xu's mother and outsiders.

A few months ago, Shen Suqiu was hit by a stray bullet during a chaotic inspection at Tianjin Railway Station and was later treated at the Tianjin Japanese Military Police Hospital.

His uncle, Xu Tian's maternal uncle, was concerned about his safety, so he allowed him to come to Shanghai to recuperate with his relatives."

Ying Zuo Zhen Zhao stood up, walked to the huge hanging map of Shanghai, and his eyes fell on the location of Tianjin.

"Tianjin Railway Station... stray bullets... Japanese Military Police Hospital..." He pondered, "A Chinese female student, injured in the chaos, was able to receive proper treatment in the Imperial Army Hospital?

Chang Gu, don't you think there's something unusual about this coincidence?"